Did I Screw Up????

[rand1com]

An SGC 3 sold for $630 a year ago in an REA auction so I think the price for a 4 was very fair.

There has not been a recorded sale of an SGC 4 in VCP since 2011 and although it sold much lower in an auction in the $200 range, in 2008 there were 2 sales in the $500 ball park so again the price was probably very fair especially based on that 3 that sold last year and the trend 16 years ago for a 4.

Kid Nichols, depending on the pose, obviously sells for many times what you paid for this card.

[Republicaninmass]

I once bid eddie plank money, for eddie collins. Take the lump and move on

[Kaneen]

If I had a nickel for every Nicholl blunder I've ever made, I'd have a lot of Nichols. Sorry...I Kid, I Kid.

Good luck with the resale of your Nicholl...hopefully it will fetch you a lot of nickels to put toward your Nichols.

[michael3322]

This is perhaps a great opportunity to share this, if you haven't already seen it.



It is MLB's historian John Thorn's contribution:
https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/kid-nichols-in-his-own-words-c06896ab5f71

Kid Nichols, In His Own Words
John Thorn
Our Game
21 min read
Jul 10, 2012

"This document, never before published and largely unknown even to exist, may not contain startling revelations and indeed may be a mere historical curiosity. And yet … it is new, and the voice is that of Hall of Fame pitcher Charles Augustus “Kid” Nichols (1869–1953). It is appropriate to publish this thirty-page handwritten fragment on this day, as the All-Star Game is about to be played in Kansas City. That where the Kid lived from 1881 until his death, excluding the years of his professional ballplaying career.

The Nichols fragment resided in the files of the Baseball Hall of Fame since the 1950s. It was first published in Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, in the Fall 2010 issue, and is reprinted here with the permission of the publisher, McFarland and Company. The annotations in italics are the work of Bill Felber, estimable scholar and old friend. Typographical and orthographic oddities have been preserved."

[scottglevy]

I’m sure that you feel disappointed. Having said that, I think you paid a fair price for a very nice OJ card. I’d guess you could at least come close to recouping your investment.

Best
Scott

[The Detroit Collector]

It can happen to anyone. I once was bidding on a Chief Meyers when I thought it was Chief Bender

[gst6]

If this is now a confessional space, I didn't realize the Jim Devlin in N172 isn't Jim "banned from baseball 10 years before N172" Devlin.